Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital, just released in December, documents an obscure piece of history: the “Battle for the Brains” with stunning photography. Hidden away out of sight in…

Clearly there was a lot of method in Kurt Vonnegut’s creative madness, as discovered by Wonkblog: Kurt Vonnegut claimed that his prettiest contribution to culture wasn’t a popular novel like “Cat’s Cradle”…

Yet another intriguing Charles Bukowski letter. I think I still prefer the letter he wrote to his publisher, John Martin. But this one is also a gem. A library in Holland banned Bukowski’s book, Tales of…

Librarians at Hamilton City Libraries have noticed an interesting trend. Books by occultist Aleister Crowley keep disappearing from their shelves. Nancy El-Gamel writes at the Waikato Times, Whether it’s due to theft…

R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell are the authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity. Transhumanism has been a hot but divisive topic on disinformation, so we felt there…

Michel Houllebecq, France’s famously controversial novelist, has a new book (Soumission) – published this week in extraordinary timing – depicting a possible future for France with a Muslim president. Both the book and the interview below…

Earlier posts have verified that Harvard University’s library contains books bound in human skin, but in case you missed it Rob Velella has summarized what you need to know about the somewhat bizarre practice,…

via Brain Pickings: A secular definition of divinity as a curiosity-driven love of truth bent through the prism of our subjective experience. “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science,”…

via Pop Matters: I took a film studies course during my undergraduate program that was focused on the works of Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, probably the most visible Canadian filmmaker after James…